An applejack salesman takes the plunge to win the heart of a local in this insane meshing of Looney Tunes and Adult Swim’s insanity.

Jean Kayak was once the greatest applejack salesman in town during the 19^th century. However, two things happened. One, beavers started to gnaw at his towers and two, he loved drinking. An accident while drunk led to the demise of his applejack business. Now destitute and hungry, Jean goes to any lengths to get food to help with his hunger. His life changes the day he meets a local furrier, with whom he instantly falls for.

However, the furrier’s dad, the Fur Master, doesn’t think Jean has what it takes to win his daughter’s heart. Jean decides to prove himself by becoming a fur master himself. He is given the task of finding beavers and hunt them down for their fur. As Jean steadily tries to prove himself, he ends up in one situation after another.  He soon learns that in order to get the Fur Master’s blessing to marry his daughter, Jean must go through the uneasy task of getting more than one hundred beavers at once. Will he succeed or will something else be in store for him?

This may be the most insane movie of the year and that’s saying a lot. Director Mike Cheslik and lead actor Ryland Brickson Cole Tews have written a one-of-a-kind film that has to be seen. Paying homage to Looney Tunes, making it more adult with some crazy goofball scenes of epic proportion including a pole dance, some crazy fight scenes galore, and some kills that are both funny and make you go wow without resorting to major geysers of the crimson. That’s the best way to describe this and I enjoyed every second of it.

With the exception of sound effects, there is no dialogue in the film. The film is told completely via body language. Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (say that name five times fast) is funny in the lead role of Jean Kayak (great name!), who starts out at the ACME Applejack Company. However, once his drinking, along with the beavers, destroy the company, we see the first act seeing a broken Jean trying to find food and attempts to lure two rabbits to get some food, going as far as doing something insane by creating two snow bunnies complete with snow boobs before using a massive snow carrot in a last-ditch attempt.

Granted the opening credits do not appear until 30 minutes into the film, but the ingenious way the film is done is this. Rather than resort of any CGI characters, the filmmakers opt to have the rabbits and beavers played by extras (including the lead star himself) in mascot style costumes. As a matter of fact, the end credits list the animals as “mascots”. In a nod to the classic toons, a dead or knocked out animal will have the X on their eyes. There are some pretty much gross out scenes where the furrier takes one of the beavers Jean kills and pulls out two steaks of its body then they have supper that way! It’s clearly a “wtf” moment, but that’s not the half of it.

The third and final act is perhaps the piece de resistance of the film. So many hilarious antics happen here which include a hyper realistic fight between Jean and the beavers, a last-ditch escape attempt that is just hysterical to watch on an icy river, and a nod to tokukatsu. This could be one of the best films of the year that will definitely need to be noticed!

Hundreds of Beavers is one of the wildest comic adventures films of the year! If you like Looney Tunes, if you like tokukatsu, if you like seeing actors in mascot costumes in all around hijinks, then this is your movie! This film is the real definition of a live-action cartoon!

WFG RATING: A+

An SRH Production. Director: Mike Cheslik. Producers: Sam Hogerton, Kurt Ravenwood, Matt Sabljak, and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews. Writers: Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews. Cinematography: Quinn Hester. Editing: Mike Cheslik.

Cast: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves, Doug Mancheski, Wes Tank, Luis Rico.